Recs if you like Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves...

Nonfiction books that explore how pop culture reflects our identities and politics at large. These books examine music, celebrities, TV, film, games, literature, and the Internet to remind us that entertainment is never just entertainment, and it really is that deep.

pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)

Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.

The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.

Feminine rage, female empowerment, emotional validation. Women supporting women. Men being men. Feminism. Feminist reads.

... or pop culture leaning.

Fiction and nonfiction that question patriarchy, critique power, and imagine new futures for anyone tired of individualistic feminism. From ghosts to economics, magic to memoirs, these books challenge everything, and make you think, feel, and maybe even rage a little.

inspired by gestures at everything plus a recent song run that Tidal gave me: 🎶 Angry Too by Lola Blanc 🎶 FEMININE RAGE by PEGGY 🎶 LABOUR by Paris Palmoa 🎶 Right by Morgan St. Jean

suggestions welcome

This one's for the girls (and the boys who care enough to learn). Nonfiction books that explore womanhood. And as always, please leave your recommendations!

Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.

Books that started my activism journey & books that I really want to read. Covering animal rights, capitalism, intersectional feminism, black liberation, workers rights, climate change, palestine and more! I will keep on adding books!

Nonfiction micro-histories that focus on aspects of women’s history. Trying to diversify this list so any suggestions are appreciated

non-fiction shining the light on women and women’s story’s and experiences

A list of books to help you assimilate different perpectives - in politics, sociology, race studies, humanities, real history, psychology.

Books you might need in order to become "disgustingly educated" on various topics that concern all of us.

As always, anything must be taken with a grain of salt, even when it's a perspective we agree with ⚠️

Never forget 😸

Nonfiction books from The New York Times' "100 Notable Books of 2025" list

Note: I will be deleting my PB account within the next two weeks, and I believe this list will be erased. Feel free to screenshot it if you see anything that interests you! ☺️ 3/17/2026

NonFiction books for those who are interested in what's happening in the world now (or at least, in the last decade) while also being super easy to read for those who don't usually jive with nonfiction.

a mix of nonfiction theory and culture writing and feminist novels

Nonfiction which focuses on feminist analysis of media and representations of (real or fictionalized) women in media.

Books on women authors and artists and characters, cultural criticisms & deep dives.

All of the books mentioned in Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert.

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(These were either referenced, uplifted, briefly mentioned, or criticized by the author)

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